Offend Maggie

Sean Caldwell — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:52:07 +0000

Buck and Judy, third song from Deerhoof’s latest opus, Offend Maggie, has been pounding around my head for days. The trumpet-sounding riff that follows the song’s simplistic stomp-stomp-beat/stomp-stomp-beat, overtop the swirling keys and sporadic waves of sonic disarray just clings to the frontal lobe. The music itself speaks of colossal revelation or discovery, maybe a journey’s end or some other milestone or life event. Here the song merely questions the identity of a sweet fruit. I’m sure it’s less literal

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David Coleman — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:31:16 +0000

My favourite Wire album is Chairs Missing. Released only eight months after the band’s debut, the more immediate, punky Pink Flag, it captured an inventive young band developing at an exponential rate in terms of both songwriting and musicianship. Next month marks the thirtieth anniversary of Chairs Missing’s release. It’s amazing really – there aren’t many records from 1998 that sound as fresh and as interesting today as this outstanding post-punk document.

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Offend Maggie

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